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Simon Woods (born 7 January 1980) is an English actor and playwright best known for his role as Octavian in Season 2 of the British-American television series Rome and the 2005 Pride & Prejudice as Charles Bingley.

Personal life

Woods attended Eton College, then read English at Magdalen College, Oxford. While at Oxford, he became friends with Chelsea Clinton. After graduating from Oxford, Woods worked briefly at The Guardian before becoming an actor.

While at Oxford in 2000, he was in a relationship with Rosamund Pike that lasted two years. The two later played lovers Jane Bennet and Charles Bingley in Pride & Prejudice.

Since 2009, Woods has been in a relationship with Christopher Bailey, the former chief executive of the British fashion house, Burberry. They married in 2012. They have two daughters, Iris and Nell.

Filmography

Playwright

Woods's stage play Hansard was presented at the Lyttelton Theatre, London, in September 2019. The work, named after the official record of proceedings in the British parliament, was directed by Simon Godwin.

References

1. "Oxford University Gazette, 26 October 2000: Colleges". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
2. Mower, Sarah (19 March 2018). "Goodbye Christopher Bailey". Vogue. Retrieved 14 March 2021.
3. Crompton, Sarah (21 August 2019). "Simon Woods's Celebrated Play Hansard Arrives in London". Vogue. Retrieved 14 March 2021.
4. Woods, Simon. "Simon Woods". HuffPost.
5. Barber, Lynn (24 May 2009). "I don't sleep around, if that's what you mean ... Would you like some more cake?". The Guardian. London.
6. The Tatler List, Christopher Bailey Archived 20 June 2017 at the Wayback Machine.
7. "Wedding bells for Burberry's Christopher Bailey and Actor Simon Woods".
8. Mower, Sarah (19 March 2018). "Goodbye Christopher Bailey". Vogue. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
9. Woods, Simon (5 September 2019). Hansard. Faber & Faber. ISBN 978-0571355433.
10. "Hansard | National Theatre". www.nationaltheatre.org.uk. 13 March 2019.

External links

• Simon Woods at IMDb

• 1980 births
• 20th-century English LGBTQ people
• 21st-century English male actors
• 21st-century English LGBTQ people
• Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford
• English gay actors
• English male television actors
• Living people
• People educated at Eton College
• English male dramatists and playwrights
• 21st-century English dramatists and playwrights
• 21st-century English male writers
• English gay writers
• British LGBTQ dramatists and playwrights